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THE GLASS CHILD
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON
Author. Songwriter. Dreamer. Wanderer.
Drunk on someone else's love
5am again, drunk on someone else’s love, or couch, and I’ve never felt more at home. I fled myself, from the life I’ve built because I’ve...
Top 12 Mary Oliver Quotes And Poems
Possibly the most beloved poet in recent times... Mary Oliver. Astonished by life, simple moments, and quiet mornings. I've kept A...
Losing people you love
You can say goodbye to people without losing the beauty they gave you. The feelings they gave you: they are yours. You own them. And you can
i’m not trying to be cute, i’m trying to be honest.
i don’t think i’m really happy yet and sometimes i think money will make me happy but does no money really make me unhappy?
sometimes i want
I'm trying, as I always will
No one will come and save you. No one will come riding on a white horse and take all your worries away. You have to save yourself ...
when i fall from earth, remember me by this
When all my accounts are gone and I fall from earth, this is what I want you to remember from me: At the end of your days, what will you...
i will be a writer now ...
Someone once said, “Get your heart real good broken and you’ll be a poet for the rest of your life”. I don’t actually know if someone ...
Loneliness is so hard when you’re left in it
It’s like ... I’m sitting on a chair with my hands resting on my legs, palms turned open to the sky. I have so little in me, but I would giv
My Favorite Andrea Gibson Quotes & Poems
Andrea Gibson quotes to comfort aching hearts or lonely days.
“I could never trust anyone who's well adjusted to a sick society.”
Writing from The Road
It's nights like these I feel like a kite. On the run from something I can't remember, but still I keep on running, just in case. They...
The Year I Changed My Own Character
But no one will come and save you. No one will take your hand and guide you to a better life. You must create it yourself.
If you say I have something to fight for, I will fight.
I want to write about the things that matter, that make your stomach turn inside out. My fingers run smoothly over the keys once they get st
it could have been so beautiful
It could have been so beautiful. The way I learned and got free and swore to never love another person ever again and it could have been so
My favorite Charles Bukowski poems
My favorite quotes and poems by Charles Bukowski: one of my favorite writers.
I would go places, they said, once.
They tell me I have an interesting life. Going places, seeing people,
and I shrug my shoulders as I pour another drink,
sitting lonely on my
Growing up is a wonderful thing to do
I want to be a safe aura in a sea of worries and uncertainty. I want to stand for clarity where only chaos seems to grow.
become one with the current.
You just have to learn to float with the current more, not fight against things. Change, movement, transitions ... you have to become one wi
with the stars above me
I don’t think of other years, past or future, the mornings in the hallways, wanting someone to stay. anyone.
I think nothing of that ...
The Sweetest Rain
This morning I woke up to the sound of white rain
shattering on my window.
The raindrops kept falling like the sweetest music,
leaving ...
Another Vagabond Lost To Love
6 months, 2 weeks, 4 days, and I still don’t know which month it was then or what day it is now. Blurred out lines from hangovers to...
Selected Writings ....
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